Figure 4.

Description of the internal states according to the YTC: A) Pratyahara translates to giving alternate food to senses; the attention is drawn from all the external senses to internal sense perceptions. B) Dharana or concentration is a practice to take attention to an object, a sensation in the body, a repeated word or mantra, but with a singular focus on one object or location, the signals to which the mind then amplifies. C) Dhyana or meditation happens when the modulations start subsiding and the intellect and memory become less connected to the mind. The content of the mind is singular and continuous. D) Samadhi or transcendence is an equanimous state where the mind drops the content it is holding onto during dhyana, modulations have subsided and focused onto the seer (aware of simply being), and the inputs from sense organs are still coming but not changing the content of the mind. E) Samapatti is a state of being aware of both the seer and the scenery; modulations are subsided and impressions or memory not active as not many associative memories are formed.